Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-05-21
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tue StanulnR cOlldr. IL Is aS uulVersdl
as ever in 'Lonnon."
An Augusta, Ga, lawyer has defended
forty-three men charged with murder
and cleared forty-one.
Advertisements for wives are inserted
in western papers by miners at Red
Gulch, Indian Territory.
A young lady at Deseronto, Canada,
attracts attention by promenading the
streets with cigarette between her
teeth.
George Francis Train gives his auto
graph to everybody who asks for it,
and predicts that it will sell for $40 in
five years.
Mrs. Hannah Euston has left to
Charleston, S. c., the sum of $400,0 900
for the purpose of making old age
comfortable"
A great religious revival is sweeping
over northern New Brunswick. 1t is
said to be unequaled in the history of
the provinces.
The public has paid for Appleton's
american Cyclopedia" In its various
editions, including annual supplements,
nearly $15,000,0O0.
Gifts at wedding anniversary recep-
tions are now understood to be discour-
aged by people "who do not have to
live on their friends"
Garabed S. Azhdarian, an Armenian,
is making his way through Amherst
college by selling Oriental embroideries,
scarfs, etc, sent him from home.
Two men of Philadelphia wet a load
of slate SO that it looked like coal and
then sold it to an unsuspecting citizen,
who thought he was lucky in buying it
for $3.50.
Pierre Lorillard favors legacy tax
of ten per cent on all fortunes exceed
ing 100000, which, he says, would
not oppress the heir, and could not be
regretted by the dead.
Statistics in the New York Herald
show that deaths by alcoholism in this
country have decreased during the past
fifteen years from a ratio of Ill to 45
in each 1000 from all causes.
Jay Cooke, now 65 years old. is de-
scribed as still an active worker and
man of affairs. He has an Office in
Philadelphia directly over the banking
house he conducted during the war.
Mrs. Campbell-Praed, at a recent
reception in New York, seemed to an
American man of letters as having just
stepped out of one of Du Mauriers So
ciety pictures in Punch, SO patrician
was her air.
A glass as hard as any cast metal,
and not more expensive than cast-iron,
is stated to have been produced by Mr..
Siemens, of Dresden. Experiments are
being made to determine whether it can
be used for rails on railways.
A quilt containing 3,162 pieces of
calico has just been completed by Mrs.
Matte Wooten, of Viola, Tenn. No
two pieces in the quilt are alike, each
one having been taken from different
pieces of calico. 1t required several
years to gather material for this work.
King Humbert of Italy has been pre-
sented with an enormous wreath of
bronze, surmounted by golden star,
in recognition of the bravery and hu-
manity displayed by him during the
cholera epidemic in Naples. 1t was paid
for by popular subscriptions limited to
cent each.
1t is more than doubtful whether the
Boston Metaphysical club will be re-
vived. Mrs Julia Ward Howe has too
many calls upon her attention and her
strength to direct its course, and there
seems 10 be no other woman with suf-
ficient mental equipment and personal
influence who is willing to take up the
work
A festive bachelor. sixty years old,
hairless and toothless, will have to pay
B14,000 for trifling with the affections Of
4 demure maiden of about forty-five
living at Portland, Ore. He refused to
come to the scratch, SO she sueu him
Cor breach of promise and the Jury
awarded her the above amount
A winsome centenarian, whose hand
some face has but few wrinkles and
whose intellectual faculties are st.l un-
dimmed, is Mrs. j. Witherspoon Smith
of New Orleans Her husband was a
grandson of John Witherspoon, J; sign.
er Of the Declaration OF Independence,
and one of her nephews was John c.
Breckinridge Of Kentucky.
The celebrated shop called the Bon
Marche, in Paris, has q 'band" or or
chestra composed of 250 Of the men and
women connected with the establish
ment The other evening, writes cor
respondent, they gave a concert in the
huge halls of the store, and eminent
artists like M. Faure, Of the Grand
opera, were among the singers. There
were no less than seven thousand peo-
pie in the audience.
Several months ago, in a mill at
Tatro, Conn.,, 14-year-old boy was
caught in a shaft and whirled around
several times. His right arm was torn
from the socket with such force as to
send it distance Of fifteen feet, his left
leg suffered a compound fracture and
bone comminuted, his right knee was
dislocated and fractured, and he was
otherwise fearfully bruised, and yet he
is alive and well.
Queen Victoria has conferred the
title Of "Highness" upon the Batten-
burg baby, because, being the offspring
Of morganatic marriage, he inherits
neither rank nor precedence from bis